Chapter 40 - Minato's Surprise

Third person POV

In the meantime, Minato was going back to search for the others when suddenly, a giant scorpion ambushed him from the trees. Luckily, Hideyoshi acted immediately by taking control of Minato's body and made him dodge the attack. The monster's presence had taken aback Minato, and Minato immediately got his sword from his inventory, before charging towards it in retaliation. "Take this, you damned monster!"

Roxas and the others heard the noise from the giant scorpion, and they ran to check out what was making that noise.

 Meanwhile, Minato was busy fighting off the monster with his sword as Hideyoshi powered and guided him and his movements. Then, the giant scorpion went smart and stabbed him in the back with its poisonous tail. Minato felt pain and stopped. His health bar was draining as the poison status had fueled its draining. Roxas and the rest arrived at the scene, only to be shocked to see Minato in pain.

 "Minato-kun!"

 "No!"

Roxas and Shuto retaliated by grabbing their weapons from their inventories and charging towards the monster to defeat it.

Roxas then sliced the giant scorpion's tail with Anko's sword, causing it to growl loudly and releasing Minato.

Meanwhile, Koyuki ran to Minato and managed to remove the sliced tail from his body.

She was about to get a healing potion from her inventory when Minato's stab wound was healed by Hideyoshi.

Koyuki was stunned and dumbfounded to see him being healed into full health and removed from the poison status. "Wait, how did you…?"

No longer feeling any pain, Minato looked at her with cool and positive confidence. "Yup, someone is now living within me, my friend."

Hideyoshi then came out of his body and greeted Koyuki nicely, "Hello!"

 "Eh?" Koyuki was surprised to see him. "Who are you? Are you dead?"

 "Yup, my name is Hideyoshi Kitagawa," Hideyoshi replied back. "Nice to meet you. I am Minato-kun's spirit guardian."

Meanwhile, Roxas and Shuto managed to defeat the monster and got some XP from it.

 "Yes, we did it!" Roxas responded to this.

 "We did it, my good friend," added Shuto, before sheathing his sword.

Both boys then looked at Minato and ran towards him, asking him if he was okay.

 "Yes, I am fine," Minato replied back. "Surprise! I have a spirit guardian of my own!"

Hideyoshi then looked at Roxas and Shuto. "Hey there…"

Roxas and Shuto were taken aback by his presence.

 "Woah!"

 "You're Minato-kun's spirit guardian?"

 "Yes," Hideyoshi replied back nicely. "My name is Hideyoshi Kitagawa. Nice to meet you all. I am Minato-kun's spirit guardian."

Roxas, Koyuki, and Shuto were amazed while Minato felt proud for his spirit guardian. And then, Anko came out of Roxas' body and saw Hideyoshi. "Woah, who are you?"

 "Oh, hello there, young man." Hideyoshi noticed him. "I'm Hideyoshi Kitagawa. I am Minato's spirit guardian."

 "Woah, what??" Anko was very surprised to hear that.

 "Yup, and you?"

Anko then snapped out of it and replied back nicely and with excitement, "My name is Anko Tachibana. I am Roxas-kun's spirit guardian. Nice to meet you, too."

Both spirit guardians became lightning-fast friends.

Meanwhile, Evil Asuna was watching them from a branch of a tree, smiling at them with evil intent, before informing her friends about their current status and whereabouts.